A podcast on sports books where Toronto-based journalists Neil Acharya and Neate Sager discuss the latest titles with authors and athletes. NEIL ACHARYA has worked in the sports media as a writer, play-by-play and voice-over announcer and video editor for more than 15 years. During the Vancouver 2010 and London 2012 Olympic Games, Neil was a voice broadcaster for Canada's Olympic Media Consortium.
He has worked as associate producer at The Score Television Network, senior story editor for the NHL Network and worked as a writer/commentator for the CBC during the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games. As a writer, Acharya has been published at VICE, Yahoo, The Toronto Star, The Hockey News, Investment Executive and NHL.COM. Originally from Carbonear, N.L, Neil came of age in Kingston, Ont. NEATE SAGER has worked as an editor and sportswriter for more than 15 years. His areas of coverage have included covering the Canadian Hockey Leagu, covering the Canadian Football League for three seasons and providing on-site coverage from the NHL draft, world junior hockey championship and the university football Vanier Cup. He has also provided remote written coverage of four Olympic Games. Sager was also the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees' football play-by-play commentator from 2011-16. Neate is also a good Kingston boy, having grown up in neighbouring Loyalist Township. Neil and Neate first came together at Queen's University at Kingston in 1999, when Neil was sports director of the CFRC 101.9 FM campus radio station and Neate was sports & fitness editor of The Queen's Journal campus newspaper. It's about time they worked together again.
